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Daily Maxwell July16

THE POWER OF A DREAM

I believe that each of us has a dream placed in the heart. I’m not talking about wanting to win the lottery. That kind of idea comes from a desire to escape our present circumstances, not to pursue a heartfelt dream. I’m talking about a vision deep inside that speaks to the very soul. It’s the thing we were born to do. It draws on our talents and gifts. It appeals to our highest ideals. It sparks our feelings of destiny. It is inseparably linked to our purpose in life. The dream starts us on the success journey.
A dream does many things for us:
•A dream gives us direction.
•A dream increases our potential.
• A dream helps us prioritize.
• A dream adds value to our work.
• A dream predicts our future.
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes noted, “The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.” This is also one of the great things about having a dream. You can pursue your dream no matter where you are today. And what happened in the past isn’t as important as what lies ahead in the future. As the saying goes, “No matter what a person’s past may have been, his future is spotless.” You can begin pursuing your dream today!
—Your Road Map for Success
DARE TO DREAM AND ACT ON THAT DREAM.

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Daily Scriptures

Psalm 37:4 

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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Daily Quote

• The adventure of life is to learn.
• The purpose of life is to grow.
• The nature of life is to change.
• The challenge of life is to overcome.
• The essence of life is to care.
• The opportunity of life is to serve.
• The secret of life is to dare.
• The spice of life is to befriend.
• The beauty of life is to give
  

  Prince

Daily Maxwell July 15
BREAKTHROUGH
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. Dick Biggs, a consultant who helps Fortune 500 companies improve profits and increase productivity, writes that all of us have unfair experiences; as a result, some people merely exist and adopt a “cease and desist” mentality. He continues,
One of the best teachers of persistence is your life’s critical turning points. Expect to experience 3–9 turning points or “significant changes” in your life. These transitions can be happy experiences . . . or unhappy times such as job losses, divorce, financial setbacks, health problems and the death of loved ones. Turning points can provide perspective, which is the ability to view major changes within the larger framework of your lifetime and let the healing power of time prevail. By learning from your turning points, you can grow at a deeper level within your career and life.
If you’ve been badly hurt, then start by acknowledging the pain and grieving any loss you may have experienced. Then forgive the people involved—including yourself, if needed. Doing that will help you move on. Just think, today may be your day to turn the hurts of your past into a breakthrough for the future.
—Failing Forward
DON’T ALLOW ANYTHING FROM YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY TO KEEP HOLDING YOU HOSTAGE.

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Daily Scripture

Daily Maxwell JULY 14

SELF-IMPROVING
We live in a society with destination disease. Too many people want to do enough to “arrive,” and then they want to retire. My friend Kevin Myers says it this way: “Everyone is looking for a quick fix, but what they really need is fitness. People who look for fixes stop doing what’s right when pressure is relieved. People who pursue fitness do what they should no matter what the circumstances are.”
People who are constantly improving themselves make three processes an ongoing cycle in their lives:
1. Preparation: Self-improving team players think about how they can improve today—not some far-off time in the future. When they get up in the morning, they ask themselves, What are my potential learning moments today? Then they try to seize those moments. At the end of the day, they ask themselves, What have I learned today that I need to learn more about tomorrow?
2. Contemplation: I recently came across the following statement: “If you study the lives of the truly great individuals who have influenced the world, you will find that in virtually every case, they spent considerable amounts of time alone—contemplating, meditating, listening.” Time alone is essential to self-improvement.
3. Application: Applying what you’ve learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.
—The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player
LEARN SOMETHING NEW TODAY, REFLECT ON WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, AND APPLY IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

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Daily Scripture

Philippians 4:9
The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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Daily Quote

Today’s Maxwell 07/11/17

PREPARATION FOR TOMORROW BEGINS TODAY

Recently, a few friends and I were privileged to have dinner with former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and his wife, Judith, in Orlando after a speaking engagement. I found the mayor to be a very warm and personable man who was an easy conversationalist. During our conversation, I of course asked him about his experience during 9/11. He talked about his impressions from that day and how the event impacted him as a leader. He said that leaders need to be ready for anything. They need to study, acquire skills, and plan for every kind of situation.
“Your success will be determined by your ability to prepare,” he said. He went on to explain that when a situation like that on September 11 occurs—for which there was no plan in place—leaders must take action and rely on whatever preparation had taken place. In his case, it was the emergency drills they had followed. Both helped during the crisis.
Preparation doesn’t begin with what you do. It begins with what you believe. If you believe that your success tomorrow depends on what you do today, then you will treat today differently. What you receive tomorrow depends on what you believe today. If you are preparing today, chances are, you will not be repairing tomorrow.
—Talent Is Never Enough
FOCUS ON PREPARING TODAY SO THAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE SUCCESS TOMORROW

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Today’s Scripture 

1 Peter 5:8

Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your Christian brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kind of suffering

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Daily Quote

Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Veronica Roth

Daily Maxwell 07/09/17

CREATE A GROWTH ENVIRONMENT
Just as the growth of tropical fish is limited by the size of the aquarium in which they live, you are affected by your environment. That’s why it’s crucial to create an environment of growth around you. That kind of place should look like this:
Others are ahead of you: When you surround yourself with people from whom you can learn, you are more likely to grow.
You are still challenged: Complacency kills growth.
Your focus is forward: If you’re thinking more about the past than the future, your growth has probably stopped.
The atmosphere is affirming: Industrialist Charles Schwab said, “I have yet to find the man . . . who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
You are out of your comfort zone: Growth requires risk. Ronald E. Osborne stated, “Unless you do something beyond what you’ve already mastered, you will never grow.”
Others are growing: When it comes to growth, it’s better to swim in a school than to try to do everything on your own.
There is a willingness to change: Clayton G. Orcutt declared, “Change itself is not progress, but change is the price that we pay for progress.”
Growth is modeled and expected: In the best possible environment, growth is not only allowed, but leaders model it and expect it from everyone. And when that happens, everyone’s potential is off the charts.
—Your Road Map for Success
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF GROWTH FOR YOUR TEAM MEMBERS.

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Daily Scripture 

Philippians 2:1-30 

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

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Today’s Quote 

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.”
Wilfred Peterson

Daily Maxwell 07/08/17
BE WILLING TO DO WHAT OTHERS WON’T
It’s said that an aid group in South Africa once wrote to missionary and explorer David Livingstone, “Have you found a good road to where you are? If so, we want to know how to send other men to join you.”
Livingstone replied, “If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all.” That’s what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won’t.
Few things gain the appreciation of a top leader more quickly than an employee with a whatever-it-takes attitude. They must be willing and able to think outside of their job description, to be willing to tackle the kinds of jobs that others are too proud or too frightened to take on.
Few things are more frustrating for a leader than having someone refuse to do a task because it is “not his job.” (In moments like those, most of the top leaders I know are tempted to invite such people to be without a job altogether!) Good leaders don’t think in those terms. They understand the Law of the Big Picture from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: “The goal is more important than the role.” A 360-Degree Leader’s goal is to get the job done, to fulfill the vision of the organization and its leader. That often means doing whatever it takes. As a leader “moves up,” that more often takes the form of hiring someone to get it done, but leaders in the middle often don’t have that option. So instead, they jump in and get it done themselves.
—The 360° Leader CULTIVATE A WHATEVER-IT-TAKES ATTITUDE.

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Daily Scripture

Philippians 3:14,
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

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Today’s Quote
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.
John Keegan

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#Lexicon

WAS-NOW: A story of change through IMPACT. There I WAS, then this happened, and here I am NOW.

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Brothers
In an effort to recognize Pax and their transformation through the Shield Lock of F3, the F3QSource will be spotlighting different groups and individuals that have benefited through the aspects of Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith.
Everyone has a different story and reason for the betterment of the F3 brotherhood. As such, we want to highlight our brothers who have made awesome strides of bettering themselves.
If you have anyone or a group of HIMs that you would like to recognize, please submit a direct message to the @F3QSource on Twitter.

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And below are a few lexicon characteristics to use as examples
ACCOUNTABILITY: Submission to Standard through Enforcement and Consequence.
ADVERSITY: A challenge to Acceleration created by Obstacles.
APPRENTICESHIP: The phase of the LDP within which Positive Habit Transfer takes place.
ASK LISTEN REMEMBER: The method by which the Q builds Trust with his Group Members. He asks questions, listens to the answer and remembs what he hears. Abbr: ALR.
CLUSTERQ: An abomination of a Q that elevates the self-confidence of all other PAX in attendance, thereby convincing PAX on the fence that they couldn’t possibly do worse than THAT guy, leading to an influx in Q signups.
COMMITMENT: Unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching determination to accomplish the Mission.
COMPLETELY STUPID AND UTTERLY POINTLESS: Difficult Events that the PAX do together to promote Teamwork and Perseverance. Abbr: CSAUP.
COMZ: The Q’s Commitment to Accelerating the quality of communication within his Group.
DISRUPTER: A HIM who is a powerful Influencer of Movement toward Organizational Advantage. Highly valued within a Lizard. Feared and loathed by Goo Nation. A menace to the status quo.
DAILY RED PILL: The Q’s daily Commitment to Accelerate his Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. Abbr: DRP.
EFFECTIVENESS: The degree to which a person or Group successfully performs their Mission.
EQUIPPING: The Q’s training of other Accelerating Men to perform their Mission.
FAITH: A man’s belief in something outside of himself. The third F of F3. AKA: the ThirdF. AKA: 3F.
FELLOWSHIP: A healthy relationship with those in Proximity. The second F of F3. AKA: the SecondF. AKA: 2F.
FITNESS: A healthy relationship with body and soul. The first F of F3. AKA: FirstF. AKA: 1F.
WAS-NOW: A story of change through IMPACT. There I WAS, then this happened, and here I am NOW.
IMPACT: Forcible contact to strong effect. (Q2.1).
IMPACT COMPONENTS:
Influence
Missionality
Positive Habit Transfer
Accountability
Correction
Targeting